Mancini family

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Mancini was one of the oldest families of Roman nobility. Their titles and fiefs were numerous: Dukes of Nevers and Donzy, Princes of Vergagne and of the Holy Roman Empire, French Peers, Spanish Grandees, Marquises of Fusignano, Counts of Montefortino, Viscounts of Clamecy, Barons of Tardello, Tumminii and Ogliastro, Lords of Clay en Brie, Roman nobles and Venetian patricians. They were knights of the Order of the Golden Fleece, of the Order of the Holy Spirit, of the Order of Saint Michael, of the Order of Malta and many more. The humanist Marco Antonio Altieri (1457 - 1537) includes them in Li Nuptiali, an important collection of news about Rome in the XVI century.

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[edit] Origins

Of Roman origin, the family has thousand-year roots in Italy, and traditionally asserts a line of descent from the gens Hostilia, whose a line took the surname Mancinus and whose Lucius Hostilius Mancinus was Consul in 608 "ab Urbe condita".

[edit] History

The Mancini family was called de Lucij in Rome for the fishes on its coat of arms. Many of the members were "Conservatori all'Urbe". The first known member of the family is Lucio Mancini who lived in 990. In the century the family had various lines that thrived with nobility everywhere, particularly at Fermo where the first memories go back to 1160 giving to the city Priori, Consoli, Gonfalonieri and Dottori, but the most important are:

The family is still perpetuated with various lines deriving from the line of Naples, the only one survival, that was restored in the roman patriciate in 1745, among which the noble Federico Mancini (London 1951), Aldo Mancini (Foggia 1938), Count of Montefortino and knight of the Order of Malta, and of the Teutonic Order, and the son Giorgio Mancini (Rome 1974), and the San Vittore line (from the hamlet of San Vittore del Lazio where the family got wide terrains and properties) founded by the noble Antonio Mancini in 1800 with his representative Adriano Fulvio Mario Mancini (Rome 1952) and the son Federico Adriano Mario La Longa Mancini (Rome 1979).

[edit] San Vittore line

Collateral line of the illustrious and old Mancini family , subline of the Naples line, initiated in the XIX century by Antonio Mancini. The son Giuseppe, Belle-Epoque dandy, married Maria Antonietta Marinelli (dead in 1914),daughter of the noble Vittore Marinelli, in 1882; they had seven children along which Carlo Alberto Antonio (1883-1940) who married Maria Concetta Cassone (1886-1965) in 1911. They had Antonio (1915-1990), noncommissioned officer of the Italian Army, he was batman of the Marshal of Italy Rodolfo Graziani in 1938, and during the Second World War fought in the VIII Army Corps on the greek-albanian battlefront; in 1943 he was catched by the Germans in Yugoslavia and he was confinated at Hohenstein in Saxony, but he ran away; then he got the Military Cross. In 1951 he married Giulia De Dominicis (1930-1988), noble Michele Alfonso's daughter (1907-1960), Commendatore of the Italian Republic. His son Adriano Fulvio Mario (1952) entrepreneur on the advertising area, who married Susanna Grazia Elisabetta La Longa (1955) in 1977 has Federico Adriano Mario (1979) and Lavinia Susanna Giulia (1987).

[edit] Notable Buildings

  • Mancini Palace in Rome;
  • Mancini de Lucij Palace also in Rome.

[edit] Sources

  • T. Amayden "La Storia delle Famiglie Romane" (con note e aggiunte di C.A. Bertini),Roma 1907
  • Claudio Rendina "Le Grandi Famiglie di Roma", Newton & Compton Editori, 2004

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